Harold Budd discography

Harold Budd discography
Harold Budd in Japan Photo: Masao Nakagami
Studio albums15
EPs1
Soundtrack albums3
Live albums3
Compilation albums9
Collaborative albums23
Guest appearances2
Production1

Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936 - December 7, 2020) was an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert.[1][2]

His discography consists of fifteen studio albums, one EP, three live albums, three soundtrack albums and several collaborations with other artists. His first recording The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr was released in 1971, but subsequently Budd didn't release anything until Brian Eno released The Pavilion of Dreams on his Obscure Records label in 1978. Since then he has been a prolific recording artist.

Eno produced his second album The Pavilion of Dreams and they worked together in collaboration on Ambient 2:The Plateaux of Mirror in 1980 and followed it in 1984 with The Pearl. In 1986 he worked with Cocteau Twins on The Moon and the Melodies, and subsequently he has worked frequently with Robin Guthrie on several albums including soundtracks to the films Mysterious Skin and White Bird in a Blizzard. Other frequent collaborators include Hector Zazou, John Foxx and Clive Wright amongst others.

This article contains information related to his recordings.

Studio albums

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1971 The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr Advance Recordings FGR 16
1978 The Pavilion of Dreams E.G. EGS 301 Produced by Brian Eno
1981 The Serpent (In Quicksilver) Cantil 181 Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989)
1984 Abandoned Cities Cantil 384 Reissued with The Serpent (In Quicksilver) by Opal Records (1989)
1986 Lovely Thunder E.G. EGED 46 Produced by Michael Hoenig, released December 1, 1986
1988 The White Arcades Opal 9 25766-2 Produced by Brian Eno
1991 By the Dawn's Early Light Opal 9 26649-2 With Bill Nelson

Reissued in 1996 by All Saints Records

1996 Luxa All Saints Records ASCD30 Released September 1, 1996
2000 The Room Atlantic 7567-83382-2 Released: August 15, 2000
2003 La Bella Vista Shout Factory DK 30373 Released: October 7. 2003
2004 Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath Samadhi Sound Sound CD SS004 Produced by Harold Budd
Released: January 18, 2005
2011 In The Mist Darla DRL248 Released: September 27, 2011
2012 Bandits of Stature Darla DRL262 Released: November 27, 2012
2013 Jane 1-11 Darla DRL281 Released: June 4, 2013
2014 Jane 12-21 Darla DRL289 Released: September 9, 2014

Live albums

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1994 She is a Phantom New Albion NA066CD With Zeitgeist

Recorded live at Westminster Church, Minneapolis, November 20, 1993

1995 Agua Sine SIN003 Live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989
2007 Perhaps Samadhi Sound SOUND-DL 001 Recorded live at California Institute of Arts December 8, 2006

Released: February 9, 2007

Compilation albums

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1987 Myths 3: La Nouvelle Sérenité Sub Rosa SUB 33003-5 With Gavin Bryars & Jon Hassell

Track No. 2 "Cartago Sand Dancing" and No. 3 "Strange Thunder"

1988 Music for Films III Opal 9 25769-2 Brian Eno's Music for Films series (Track No. 5 "Balthus Bemused by Color")

Reissued in 1992 by All Saints Records

1989 The Serpent (In Quicksilver) / Abandoned Cities Opal 9 26025-2 Released: September 19, 1989
Reissued by All Saints Records (2005)
1997 Unlimited Ambient Gruppo Futura (None) With Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - track No. 5 "The Valley of Pamir"
With Daniel Lentz and Jessica Karraker - track No. 8 "Beyond This Veil", No. 10 "Interlude 6" and No. 15 "Begin Then Not Know (Reprise)"
1998 Fenceless Night: Selections for Cinema 1980-1998 Polygram PMP 018 Promotional sampler containing a selection of Budd's work, including solo works and collaborations with Brian Eno, Hector Zazou, Cocteau Twins, Andy Partridge and Daniel Lanois
2006 Compounds + Elements All Saints Records HNCD 1510 Released: February 21, 2006
All Saints Records sampler containing several tracks by Budd
2013 Budd Box Sampler All Saints Records WASTBOX1PROMO Promotional sampler containing a 15 track selection of Budd's work for the 7 CD box
2013 Budd Box All Saints Records WASTBOX1 Released: December 9, 2013

7 CD box set in a white box containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Through The Hill, Luxa

2018 Budd Box All Saints Records WASTBOX1X Released: April 18, 2018

6 CD box set (black box, 2nd edition) containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Luxa

EPs

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1981 The Serpent (in Quicksilver) Cantil 181 Also released in 1982 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Belgium
Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989)

Soundtracks

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
2005 Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film Commotion CR008 Released: May 24, 2005
With Robin Guthrie
2014 White Bird in a Blizzard Lakeshore LKS344142 Released: September 23, 2014
With Robin Guthrie
2020 I Know This Much Is True (Music From The HBO Series) All Saints Records WAST062DL Released: Jun 13, 2020

Collaborative albums

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1980 Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror E.G. EGAMB 002 With Brian Eno
1984 The Pearl E.G. EGED 37 With Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois
1986 The Moon and the Melodies 4AD CAD 611 With Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser
1991 Music for 3 Pianos EP All Saints Records ASCD14 Released: January 1, 1991
With Daniel Lentz & Ruben Garcia
1994 Through the Hill All Saints Records ASCD21 Released: July 8, 1994
With Andy Partridge
1995 Glyph Made To Measure MTM 37 Released: December 12, 1995
With Hector Zazou
1996 Glyph Remixes EP SSR SSR 163 Released: June 17, 1996
With Hector Zazou
1998 Walk Into My Voice: American Beat Poetry Materiali Sonori MASO CD 90085 With Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker
2002 Jah Wobble's Solaris - Live In Concert 30 Hertz Records 30HZCD18 Released: July 27, 2002
With Jah Wobble, Graham Haynes, Jaki Liebezeit & Bill Laswell
Three White Roses and a Budd EP Twentythree Records T 016 Released: August 27, 2002
With Fila Brazillia and Bill Nelson
2003 Translucence/Drift Music Edsel MEDCD 727 Released: August 26, 2003
With John Foxx
2005 Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' Sub Rosa SR239 Recorded live at Palazzo Delle Papesse (Siena, Italy) June 26, 2003

Released: May 17, 2005
With Eraldo Bernocchi

2007 After the Night Falls Darla DRL182 Released: July 16, 2007
With Robin Guthrie
Before the Day Breaks Darla DRL183 Released: July 16, 2007
With Robin Guthrie
2008 A Song for Lost Blossoms Darla DRL198 Released: October 7, 2008
With Clive Wright
2009 Candylion Darla DRL221 Released: May 26, 2009
With Clive Wright
2010 Little Windows Darla DRL 234 Released: June 8, 2010
With Clive Wright
2011 Bordeaux Darla DRL244 Released: February 7, 2011
With Robin Guthrie
Nighthawks, Translucence and Drift Music Edsel EDSX3011 Released: June 27, 2011
With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia (on Nighthawks)
Winter Garden RareNoiseRecords RNR021 Released: November 29, 2011
With Eraldo Bernocchi and Robin Guthrie
2013 Jane 1-11 Darla DRL287

CD+DVD with video accompaniment to each album track by visual artist Jane Maru

2015 Nighthawks Metamatic META55CD Released: July 4, 2015
With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia
The Little Glass Akira Rabelais (None) Released: December 3, 2015
With Akira Rabelais
2020 Another Flower Darla DRL360 Recorded in Brittany in 2013

Released: December 4, 2020
With Robin Guthrie

Guest appearances

Year Title Label Catalogue number Notes
1975 Vista Impulse ASD 9304 With Marion Brown
Celeste and gong on track No. 5 (also composition of track)
2009 No Line On The Horizon Mercury 1796037 Released: February 27, 2009
With U2
Instrumentation on track No. 11 "Cedars of Lebanon"

Production

Year Artist Album Notes
1981 Gene Bowen Bourgeois Magnetic Production and instrumentation

Ephemera

  • The indie rock band Rothko has a song titled "Harold Budd" on their album In the Pulse of An Artery (which uses a sample from Budd's "Boy About 10" from his album By the Dawn's Early Light.)
  • Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.
  • The Harold Budd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
  • On saxophonist Marion Brown's 1975 album Vista, Harold Budd plays celeste and gong on the track "Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim", a shorter version of the same composition on Budd's 1978 album The Pavilion of Dreams (which also includes Marion Brown as saxophone soloist).
  • In 1961, while in the military, Harold Budd briefly played drums in an Army band with legendary avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler.
  • The track "Subtext" from Budd's album Translucence with John Foxx features in the film Inside I'm Dancing (Momentum Pictures, June 2004)

See also

References

  1. ^ Nicolas Slonimsky; Laura Kuhn; Dennis McIntire (January 1, 2001). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (9th ed.). Schirmer Books. ISBN 9780028655253. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
  2. ^ Thiessen, Brock. "Harold Budd Has Reportedly Died". Exclaim!.